Bottle-rinsing machine.



L. WEISOOPF.

BOTTLE RINSING MACHINE.

APPLIOATION FILED OUT. 25, 1909.

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L. WEISGOPR' BOTTLE EINSING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED OUT. 25, 1909.

Patented Sept. 27, 1910.

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LEOPOLD WEISCOPF, NEW YORK, N. Y.

BOTTLE-RINSING MACHINE.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 2'7, 1910.

Applieation filed October 25, 1909. Serial No. 524,356;v

and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bottle-Rinsing Machines; and I do hereby declarethat the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

The object of my invention is to provide a rapid, simple and economical bottle-rinsing machine, its construction and arrangement being such that the machine is capable of adjustment, wherebybottles of various sizes may be cleaned, the bottles being placed over nozzles carried by a slowly revolving sectional reel, through which reel, water is successively admitted to the sections thereof at a predetermined point in its rotation, whereby the bottles of each reel-section are cleaned both interiorly and exteriorly. Thus the bottles are handled by a single operation, being inserted upon the nozzles and removed therefrom after having completed a revolution of the reel in a thoroughly cleaned condition, while the utilized water.

is caught in a stationary metallic basin and discharged therefrom through a waste-pipe.

-The invention therefore consists in what is herein described with reference to the accompanying drawings and subsequently claimed.

In the drawings: Figure 1 represents a vertical sectional view of a rinsing-machine embodying the features of my invention, with portions of the mechanism broken away; Fig. 2, a plan view of the same, with parts broken away and parts in section to better illustrate the details; Fig. 3, a detail {sectionalelevation of the machine looking toward the rinsing-side thereof, the section being indicated by line 33 of Fig. 1, and Fig. 4, a detail plan view of fixed waterdistributing rings utilized in connection with the reel-hub.

Referring by numerals to the drawings, 1 indicates a hollow standard in which is secured a gear-box 2, that also serves as the lower bearing for a vertical spindle 3, the

upper bearing of the spindle being had in a sleeve 4; that extends from the standard.

Motion is imparted/to the spindle through a pulley 5 fast in a shaft carried by the gear-box, between which shaft and spindle within the box is interposed a suitable system of reduction-gearing-the latter forming no part of the invention and therefore is not shown. I

V A flanged cup-portion 6 of the standard has secured thereto the inclined bottom of a basin 7, the latter being provided with an annular wall 8, that forms a casing for the rinsing apparatus. Keyed to the upper end of the spindle is a hub 9 provided with a series 'of hollow spokes 10, the lower face of the hub being countersunk for the reception of a channeled ring 11, which ring surrounds the spindle and is faced to effect a water-tight joint in connection with the countersunk face of the hub. The channeled ring 11 carries two or more depending rods 12, one of which only is shown. The ends of these rods engage'apertures in a flange 4: that extends from the sleeve 4 of the standard. The rods are threaded adjacent to the ring for the reception of adjusting nuts, between which nuts and the sleeve flange 4 are interposed coil-springs 13 adapted to hold said ring securely to its seat. In order to hold the ring against rotation, the latter is provided with a depending slotted car 14:, the slot in which car members-19., which members are connected,

by the radial channels 18, the ends of the hollow members 19 being closed by radial plugs 20 that abuteach other and are secured together to form a pair of lnterrup tions for the water channels. These channels in turn are fed by the spokes 10, from the channeled ring 11, as each opening 17 of the respective spokes passes over the seg- 10 mental aperture 16 of said channeled ring. Water-supply is admitted to the ring 11 by means of a valve-controlled supply-pipe 21., which, pipe passes through the bottom.

of basin 7 and "is tapped into the ring-channel, as shown.

From the foregoing it w1ll be seen that the annular hollow members 19 together provided with suitable end perforations,

may be cleaned over nozzles of a maximum with downwardly curved edges, whereby the -more effectually reached by the water-spray.

with the hubbed spokes and spindle .constitute a rotatory reel, the sections of which reelare fed by water at'intervals while they are passing the segmental feed aperture 16 in the non-rotatory ring.

The tubular members 19 of the sectors are tapped for the reception of a series of vertically disposed spray-nozzles 22 that are through which perforations water is discharged within bottles placed over the spindle. In order that bottles of various sizes length effectually, provision is made for regulating the distance between the bottom of the bottle and spray-end of the nozzle. The means employed comprise an adjustable bottle-rest in the form of a sheet-meta ring 23, the ring being provided with apertures 24 through which the nozzle 22 project. The apertures 24 are slightly longer in diameter than the diameter of the nozzles, said apertures being pressed or otherwise formed spent water is freely conducted from the interior of the bottles and through the aforesaid aperture. The spent water is finally caught by the basin and discharged through a waste-pipe 25 that is connected to the standard cup. The sheet-metal ring is supported by posts 26 secured to the webs 18 of the sectors, which posts pass through apertures in the ring and collars 27 that are secured to the upper face of said ring, the collars being provided with set-screws for engagement with the posts, whereby the aforesaid ring 23 may be held at various elevations with respect to the nozzle ends. Thus if a lot of small bottles are to be cleaned, the ringwould be set at a correspondingly high elevation, as shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings, but should large sized bottles, such as indicated at X, be cleaned, it. is obvious that the sheet-metal ring or bottle-rest would be dropped downward,

whereby the nozzles would extend farther into the bottles in order that the same may be more firmly supported and their bottoms That portion of the basin wall 8 opposite the segmental aperture 16 of the channel-ed ring, is provided with a hood 28, which hood is secured to the wall and has a roof-portion that extends over the hollow members 19 ofthe reel, the hood serving as a deflector to throw the waste water that escapes or spatters from the nozzles at this point into the basin. The roof of the hood also serves as a support for the bottle-shield 29 that is hung from said roof by posts 30, which posts project from the shield and are adjustably secured in bosses 31 of the hood roof, beingheld in adjustment by set-screws in threaded engagement with the bosses, as bestshown in Fig. 3. This shield is adweight bottles are being cleaned, it being understood that the length of said shield is only of such proportions as to hold those bottles which are being rinsed upon'a single section of the reel.

To clean the exterior of the bottles a valve-controlled branch-pipe 32 extends from the main supply-pipe over the hood roof, the end of the branch-pipe being in hose-connection with aperforated pipe-section 33, which section is secured to the upper face of the bottle-shield 29, the shield in this instance being provided with perforations through which water from the perforations of the pipe-section 33 passes and is distributed upon the outside of the bottles as they travel thereunder, this water being also caught by, the basin 7 and discharged into the waste-pipe.

From the foregoing description it is apparent that in using the machine, the operator standing at one point places the inverted bottles to be rinsedupon the nozzles as the reel slowly revolves, when the spoke opening 17 of the sector upon which the bottles have been placed, reaches the segmental aperture 16 of the ring, the bottles thereon have passed under the bottle shields 29. Water is then admitted to the interior of the bottles and their exterior is also cleaned by the perforated pipe-section at this point. When the bottles pass from under the hood28, the Water is cut off from the nozzles and as the cleaned bottles reach the operator in their rotation they are removed and replaced by others.

I claim:

1. A bottle-rinsing machine comprising a standard-supported basin, a rotatory hollow sectional reel mounted within the basin, the reel being provided with a hub having its bottom face provided with a series of horizontally disposed water-inlet apertures, a non rotatory water supply ring having a horizontally disposed single aperture therein adapted to register with the reel apertures, a series of vertically disposed spraynozzles in connection with each sector of the hollow reel, posts extending from the reel, a unitary apertured bottle-supporting ring fitted over all of the spray-nozzles and independent thereof, collars extending from the bottle-supporting ring, for connection with the posts, and means in connection with the collars for securin said bottle-supporting ring in a fixed ad usted position upon the osts.

2. A bottle-rinsing machine comprising a standard-supported basin, a rotating'sectional hollow reel mounted within the basin, the reel being provided with a series of water-inlet apertures, a non-rotatory watersupply ring having a single aperture therein, adapted to register with the reel-apertures, vertically disposed spray-nozzles in connection with the hollow reel, an adjustable apertured bottle-supporting rin fitted over the spray-nozzles, and an adjustable bottleshield disposed above said spray-nozzles.

- 3. A bottle-rinsing machine comprising a standard-supported basin, a rotatory sectional hollow reel mounted within the basin, the reel being provided with a series of water-inlet apertures, a non-rotatory watersupply 'ring having a single aperture therein, adapted to register with the reel'apertnres, means for holding the ring in yielding-connection with the reel, vertically disposed spray-nozzles in connection with the.

hollow reel, an adjustable apertured bottlesupporting ring carried by theme], the apertures in the bottle-supporting ring being fitted over the spray-nozzles, a'hood in connection with the basin, an adjustable bottleshield carried by the hood and disposed above "said spray-nozzles, a perforated pipesection in connection with the shield, and a water-supply pipe in connection with the perforated pipe section and non rotatory water-supply ring. a

4." A bottle-rinsing machine comprising a standard, a basin secured to the standard, a rotatory spindle, and a reel mounted upon the spindle, the reel comprising a hub secured to the spindle having hollow spokes, a

series of hollow spokes connected with a series of hollow sectors independent of each other, vertical spray-nozzles extending from the hollow sectors, openings in the reel-hub in connection with each spoke, a non-rotatory water-supply ring having a single aperture therein adapted to register with the reel hub openings, means in connection with the standard holding the non-rotatory ring in yielding engagement with the reel-hub, and

- register with the ring aperture, springs interposed between the standard and ring wvhereby the latteris held in yielding engagement with said hub-portion of the reel, non-communicating hollow sectors carried by the reel-spokes, each sector being in com munication with one of said reel-spokes, spray-nozzles extending from the hollow sectors, a drip-pan connecting the standard and surrounding the reel sectors, a hood extending upwardly from the drip-pan and partially surrounding the same, and a spray pipe extending within the hood, the spraypipe being disposed above the plane of the spray-nozzles.

6. A bottle-rinsing machine comprising a rotatory hollow reel, having non-communieating sections, spray-nozzles carried by the sections, means for supplying water to the non-communicating sections successively, a hood disposed above the reel in such relation to the water-supply as to be over that section which is being suppliedwith water, an adjustable bottle shield carried by the hood and disposed above said spray-no'zzles, a perforated pipe section in connection with the bottle shield, and a water-supply pipe in connection with the pipe section.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand at Milwaukee, in the county-of Milwaukee and State of Wiscousin in the presence of two witnesses.

g L. WEISCOPF. Vitnesses:

GEORGE FELBER, N. OLIPHANT. 

